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Dec 5, 2012
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded NYU’s Center for European and Mediterranean Studies (CEMS) a grant of $86,611 to run a summer seminar, “Eastern Europe in European History,” to provide background on the subject for K-12 teachers and graduate students who plan on entering the field of education.Read MoreNYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Research, Faculty |
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Dec 7, 2012
NYU’s Center on U.S.-China Relations will host “Chinese Capital Outflows and the Global Economy,” featuring Winston Lord and Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassadors to China, as well as business executives and policy analysts, on Friday, December 7Read More
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Dec 10, 2012
Vernice Doris Ferguson, RN, MA, FAAN, FRCN, 84, died on Saturday, Dec. 8, at her home in Washington, DC. Ferguson was nationally and internationally known for her leadership role in fostering excellence in nursing care and the nursing profession. Throughout her career, she was a role model for nurses at every level of the profession, whether practitioners, administrators, or researchers. Exemplifying the highest ideals of nursing, she had increased awareness of the vital role nurses play in health care research and policy making, and thereby contributed enormously to the greater prominence of nurses as leaders in the health-care community. Read MoreAlumni, College of Nursing |
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Dec 11, 2012
We’re more likely to see threatening objects as closer than they really are, a misperception that may fuel us to act in ways to avoid dangerous situations, psychology researchers at New York University and Cornell University have found. Read MoreArts and Science, Research, Faculty |
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Dec 11, 2012
NYU Steinhardt has named J. Lawrence Aber, an expert on children, poverty, and public policy, the inaugural Albert & Blanche Willner Family Professor in Applied Psychology and Public Policy and an NYU University Professor. Read More
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Dec 12, 2012
Four faculty members and one alumna from New York University’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music at the Tisch School of the Arts, are among the nominees for 2013 Grammy Awards.Read MoreTisch School of the Arts, NYUToday-feature |
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Dec 12, 2012
The Department of Dance at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts will present a one-night-only concert of works by alumni choreographers at NYU’s Skirball Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, March 1, 2013. Read MoreTisch School of the Arts |
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Dec 18, 2012
In How Soon Is Now? Medieval Texts, Amateur Readers, and the Queerness of Time, Carolyn Dinshaw performs a critique of modernist temporal regimes through its exploration of queer ways of being in time as well as of the potential queerness of time itself.Read MoreArts and Science, Research |
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Dec 19, 2012
The Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute is accepting applications for “The Reporting Award,” which supports a work of journalism in any medium on significant underreported subjects of public interest.Read MoreNYUToday-feature, Arts and Science, Around the Square |
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Dec 23, 2012
Autistic-like behaviors can be partially remedied by normalizing excessive levels of protein synthesis in the brain, a team of researchers has found in a study of laboratory mice. Read MoreArts and Science, Research |
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Dec 24, 2012
NYU biologists have identified how a vital protein is loaded by others into the centromere, the part of the chromosome that plays a significant role in cell division. Their findings shed new light on genome replication and may offer insights into the factors behind the production of abnormal numbers of chromosomes. Read MoreArts and Science, Research |
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